Re: [H] nVidia video card until

2014-07-12 Thread joeuser
No one? Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... ...now these points of data make a beautiful line... Original Message Subject: [H] nVidia video card until From: joeu...@chronic.org Date: Wed, July 09, 2014 10:24 am To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com I have

Re: [H] nVidia video card until

2014-07-12 Thread Stan Zaske
Upgrade to GTX 750 Ti because it's cheap frugal on trons and probably better than those 460's. Cheers! On Sat, 12 Jul 2014 11:31:26 -0500, joeu...@chronic.org wrote: No one? Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... ...now these points of data make a beautiful line...

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-15 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 8:44 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card survey I just installed Win 7 on my machine. I have an Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 graphics card that I have had for about 9 months now. This card gives me 7.4 for both

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-15 Thread Stan Zaske
. My disk sub-score is 7.9 with two Intel G2 SSDs. :) -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 8:44 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-15 Thread Bobby Heid
14, 2010 3:01 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card survey I'm curious Bobby, since you don't game what do you need a GTX 285 for. Are you fold...@home or doing some Cuda stuff? My hard drive score is 4.8 and memory is 7.4 by the way. On 1/13/2010 8:44 PM, Bobby Heid

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-15 Thread Stan Zaske
...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Stan Zaske Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 3:01 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card survey I'm curious Bobby, since you don't game what do you need a GTX 285 for. Are you fold...@home or doing some Cuda stuff? My hard drive score is 4.8

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Greg Sevart
. That was the biggest reason behind it. Greg -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Q. Martin Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 1:30 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card survey Wow

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Eli Allen
One major disadvantage, you can't use TRIM on the drives and I'm guessing the raid will increase latency a bit. Eli On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Greg Sevart ad...@xfury.net wrote: Yes. When I was weighing getting one 160GB G2 vs two 80GBs and stripe them, I opted for the later since the

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Stan Zaske
...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Stan Zaske Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 4:52 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card survey Graphics and gaming graphics are both 7.1 which is not bad. Unfortunately, I don't remember what the old 4850

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card survey Graphics and gaming graphics are both 7.1 which is not bad. Unfortunately, I don't remember what the old 4850 was so can't compare the two. If you're looking for a 7.7 you'll need to step up to the 5850 or 5870 but what's

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Stan Zaske
-score is 7.9 with two Intel G2 SSDs. :) -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 8:44 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card survey I just

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Stan Zaske
PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card survey Graphics and gaming graphics are both 7.1 which is not bad. Unfortunately, I don't remember what the old 4850 was so can't compare the two. If you're looking for a 7.7 you'll need to step up to the 5850 or 5870 but what's

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Joe User
Hello Stan, Thursday, January 14, 2010, 2:29:22 PM, you wrote: If I might make a suggestion, why not try out a first person online shooter called Left4Dead II. It's a lot of fun playing with people especially with a mic so you can talk with each other. Seconded. -- Regards, joeuser -

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Joe User
Hello Stan, Thursday, January 14, 2010, 2:07:22 PM, you wrote: I'm really enjoying my 5770. Acording to my Kill A Watt the idle power went from 150 to 115 and loaded 235 to 205. Pretty good drop and a lot faster to boot. Well done. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Joe User
Hello Anthony, Thursday, January 14, 2010, 2:15:22 PM, you wrote: I think I'm going to install a gameso I can say I'm not going for bragging rights trying to get my WEI graphic scores above 7. :) Ok seriously... what's up with WEI. I see all this talk about it, it cannot be that good of

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
It's called obsession, my friend! On 1/14/2010 5:42 PM, Joe User wrote: Hello Anthony, Thursday, January 14, 2010, 2:15:22 PM, you wrote: I think I'm going to install a gameso I can say I'm not going for bragging rights trying to get my WEI graphic scores above 7. :) Ok

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 8:44 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card survey I just installed Win 7 on my machine. I have an Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 graphics card that I

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Greg Sevart
] On Behalf Of Eli Allen Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 10:25 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card survey One major disadvantage, you can't use TRIM on the drives and I'm guessing the raid will increase latency a bit. Eli On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Greg

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Joe User
Hello Anthony, Thursday, January 14, 2010, 5:09:07 PM, you wrote: It's called obsession, my friend! That answers that! -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... ...now these points of data make a beautiful line...

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Stan Zaske
LOL On 1/14/2010 5:09 PM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: It's called obsession, my friend! On 1/14/2010 5:42 PM, Joe User wrote: Hello Anthony, Thursday, January 14, 2010, 2:15:22 PM, you wrote: I think I'm going to install a gameso I can say I'm not going for bragging rights trying to get

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-14 Thread Stan Zaske
...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 8:44 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card survey I just installed Win 7 on my machine. I have an Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 graphics card that I have had for about 9 months now. This card gives

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-13 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
Cooler with less power is good. What kind of WEI do you get under Windows 7? I've been thinking of upgrading my Geforce 8800 GTS to something, as this inexpensive Radeon HD 4670 is just a few clicks under it on WEI (6.4 vs 6.9). I'd like to get above 7.0 on my home system. Of course, going

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-13 Thread Stan Zaske
Graphics and gaming graphics are both 7.1 which is not bad. Unfortunately, I don't remember what the old 4850 was so can't compare the two. If you're looking for a 7.7 you'll need to step up to the 5850 or 5870 but what's the point if you never game. Might as well stay with what you have.

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-13 Thread Bobby Heid
of SSDs. LOL. Bobby -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Stan Zaske Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 4:52 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card survey Graphics and gaming graphics

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-13 Thread Greg Sevart
13, 2010 8:44 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card survey I just installed Win 7 on my machine. I have an Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 graphics card that I have had for about 9 months now. This card gives me 7.4 for both graphics scored. My HD score is a lowly 5.9

Re: [H] New Video Card survey

2010-01-13 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 8:44 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card survey I just installed Win 7 on my machine. I have an Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 graphics card that I have had

Re: [H] Free video editing software which will rotate the frames?

2009-10-25 Thread Rick Glazier
I had that problem with a small Nikon camera and MOV files. I don't think VirtualDub will do that directly, but if you get them out of the MOV format it will. As in - transcode them to something else as-is (like AVI), and then work on them with the built-in filters in VirtualDub. (You need to

Re: [H] Free video editing software which will rotate the frames?

2009-10-25 Thread maccrawj
All along making them grainier and grainier! No answer here but be sure to process them w/o compression until the end because I'll bet they are already low-rez like my CP5700 creates and each re-compress is like analog video tape with generations. Rick Glazier wrote: I had that problem

Re: [H] Free video editing software which will rotate the frames?

2009-10-25 Thread Rick Glazier
Agree. And I got rid of the MOV camera because it was too dificult to work with the videos it took... I use Fuji and Olympus waterproof cameras now and they store in AVI, so the single compression WHILE turning is a single step process. They basically look the same to me, but I'm NOT into HiDef

Re: [H] ATI video drivers?

2008-12-18 Thread Brian Weeden
Usually on ATI's site they have one download link for the entire package and a separate one for just the driver (at least for the Radeon drivers). On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:04 PM, DHSinclair dsinc...@bellsouth.net wrote: My new system is running very well. Thank you. Earlier today I went in

Re: [H] ATI video drivers?

2008-12-18 Thread Neil Davidson
Drivers only: 13.3MB driver + control Center: 34.7MB http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=xp/radeonx-xp -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DHSinclair Sent: 18 December 2008 22:04 To: Hardware

Re: [H] ATI video drivers?

2008-12-18 Thread DHSinclair
Brian, That is what I expected also. I was able to dl a driver only for my R4670 (building tonight!). For some odd reason, the only driver for the R4350 is this 137MB file! Hopefully, this file just expands so I can search this hotfix solution and find just the driver. Very odd, but not

Re: [H] ATI video drivers?

2008-12-18 Thread Neil Davidson
...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DHSinclair Sent: 18 December 2008 23:08 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] ATI video drivers? Brian, That is what I expected also. I was able to dl a driver only for my R4670 (building tonight!). For some odd reason, the only driver for the R4350

Re: [H] ATI video drivers?

2008-12-18 Thread DHSinclair
lease_notes.pdf :) -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of DHSinclair Sent: 18 December 2008 23:08 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] ATI video drivers? Brian, That is what I expected also. I was able to dl

Re: [H] ATI video drivers?

2008-12-18 Thread Neil Davidson
: 18 December 2008 23:36 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] ATI video drivers? Thanks, Neil. I can not open the link you sent. 403 error. Duncan At 23:20 12/18/2008 +, you wrote: The release notes for 8.12 I linked to has the R4350 listed as one of the (many) cards it can handle

Re: [H] New video card works!

2008-12-10 Thread Joe User
Hello, Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 11:49:16 PM, I wrote: Well, I figured out the performance thing. It seems to be something with World Of Warcraft Catalyst 8.11 drivers. The 8.12 drivers to be released within hours (12.10.08) is supposed to address this, at least they did in the beta

Re: [H] New video card works!

2008-12-09 Thread Joe User
Hello, Sunday, December 7, 2008, 9:31:45 PM, I wrote: Yeah I had that same issue. I figured it out and installing the realtek hda 280 drivers seemed to fix it? it's not nagging for the driver now and seems stable. I'm not getting the performance boost like I thought I would though. Well, I

Re: [H] New video card works!

2008-12-07 Thread DHSinclair
JB, The R4350 does not arrive with this adaptor from MSI. No bother. I have a collection of same. Should I find a need to use the DVI connector, I can use it (w/accepted loss of visual accuity!). The R4350 does, however, have a small white socket hidden under the heatsink at the lower rear

Re: [H] New video card works!

2008-12-07 Thread DHSinclair
j, I will truly accept your wisdom here, but, this MSI card just would not re-boot w/o a nag msg about its' missing HD Audio Driver! Even after upgrading to WinXPpro! I'm not certain what stopped the nag msgs ATM. It was either to allow the install of the ATI HD Audio Driver, or, digging

Re: [H] New video card works!

2008-12-07 Thread Joe User
Hello DHSinclair, Sunday, December 7, 2008, 3:36:32 PM, you wrote: j, I will truly accept your wisdom here, but, this MSI card just would not re-boot w/o a nag msg about its' missing HD Audio Driver! Even after upgrading to WinXPpro! I'm not certain what stopped the nag msgs ATM. It was

Re: [H] New video card works!

2008-12-05 Thread DHSinclair
JB, OK, on the next nag msg, I will install it to get rid of the yellow other devices object in the CP/DM. Yes, I comprehend the HDMI interface. I have seen it on many of the higher level video cards. The 4350 does not have one. It has a VGA interface and a DVI inteface, the 4670 just has 2

Re: [H] New video card works!

2008-12-05 Thread James Boswell
On 5 Dec 2008, at 19:16, DHSinclair wrote: JB, OK, on the next nag msg, I will install it to get rid of the yellow other devices object in the CP/DM. Yes, I comprehend the HDMI interface. I have seen it on many of the higher level video cards. The 4350 does not have one. It has a VGA

Re: [H] New video card works!

2008-12-05 Thread maccrawj
DVI-HDMI adapter is precisely what comes bundled with ATI cards and the HQ audio driver can safely be disabled is not using HDMI. Of the 2 brands of 3870x2's I went through I also got 2 DVI-VGA 1 Svideo-Component adapters also. Load the driver, then disable it is what I did. James Boswell

Re: [H] New video card - GTX 260 or HD 4870?

2008-09-25 Thread maccrawj
XML fix is bullshit, I came up with it before it was mainstream and it does nothing until Windows boots. It's not an acceptable solution as the problem is hardware based I have posted all over the Sapphire forums months ago. Cards with the issue should be recalled replaced with reworks ones,

Re: [H] New video card - GTX 260 or HD 4870?

2008-09-25 Thread maccrawj
Cost's slightly more for 280 AFAIK, performance goes to ATI unless there's a support issue with a given game as someone just said. Jason Carson wrote: What about the 280? Is it too much money? How does it compare to the 4870?

Re: [H] New video card - GTX 260 or HD 4870?

2008-09-24 Thread maccrawj
Well no dual cards means you're not constrained by chipset support of SLI vs. Crossfire. Not going dual I think is a mistake, and not getting an X2 model a bigger mistake given how demanding new games like Crysis are. This also leaves an option to go with a second X2 down the road. Personally

Re: [H] New video card - GTX 260 or HD 4870?

2008-09-24 Thread Jason.Tozer
@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New video card - GTX 260 or HD 4870? Well no dual cards means you're not constrained by chipset support of SLI vs. Crossfire. Not going dual I think is a mistake, and not getting an X2 model a bigger mistake given how demanding new games like Crysis

Re: [H] New video card - GTX 260 or HD 4870?

2008-09-23 Thread Winterlight
Well, Maximum PC and Extreme tech have been giving the 4870 the nod in the last few months... a better card and cheaper. Particularly when it comes to video. I think the cooling / noise is more about the specific manufacture then it is the GPU. I too have a X1950, although it is AGP. And I

Re: [H] UT3 video responce

2008-08-04 Thread maccrawj
I'd not expect stellar from that card give how old vs. UT3. RAM drive for TEMP likely counter-productive. If you upgrade, skip Sapphire next time! Winterlight wrote: I just started playing UT3. I am trying to get my video to be more responsive. I am running a dual Xeon 3.06, 4GB DDR400, and a

Re: [H] UT3 video responce

2008-08-04 Thread Steve Tomporowski
Nope, if it's old, it won't do better than that. I originally had a 7800GT (Nvidia) in my system and upgraded to an 8800GT to get decent response. Note that UT3 is normally frame locked at 60fps (which makes me laugh at some of the reviews on the web), so unless you specifically go in and change

Re: [H] UT3 video responce

2008-08-04 Thread Winterlight
At 06:09 AM 8/4/2008, you wrote: I'd not expect stellar from that card give how old vs. UT3. Actually, I found a article on how to tweak your ATI card for UT3 or any other game, http://www.tweakguides.com/UT3_2.html mostly explaining what the settings do, ...and after tweaking my card it

Re: [H] UT3 video responce

2008-08-04 Thread James Boswell
On 4 Aug 2008, at 19:47, Winterlight wrote: RAM drive for TEMP likely counter-productive. running from RAM rather then a hard drive counter productive... why? Because dedicating a chunk like that You're blocking ram that could be used for caching on an as-need basis. Infact, it

Re: [H] UT3 video responce

2008-08-04 Thread maccrawj
Winterlight wrote: At 06:09 AM 8/4/2008, you wrote: I'd not expect stellar from that card give how old vs. UT3. Actually, I found a article on how to tweak your ATI card for UT3 or any other game, http://www.tweakguides.com/UT3_2.html mostly explaining what the settings do, ...and

Re: [H] UT3 video responce

2008-08-04 Thread Winterlight
At 12:05 PM 8/4/2008, you wrote: On 4 Aug 2008, at 19:47, Winterlight wrote: RAM drive for TEMP likely counter-productive. running from RAM rather then a hard drive counter productive... why? Because dedicating a chunk like that You're blocking ram that could be used for caching on an

Re: [H] UT3 video responce

2008-08-04 Thread maccrawj
Winterlight wrote: At 12:05 PM 8/4/2008, you wrote: On 4 Aug 2008, at 19:47, Winterlight wrote: RAM drive for TEMP likely counter-productive. running from RAM rather then a hard drive counter productive... why? Because dedicating a chunk like that You're blocking ram that could be used

Re: [H] UT3 video responce

2008-08-04 Thread Winterlight
Not true, I have no such folder since I long ago moved pagefile, %temp% for system users, %userprofile%, and %programfiles% to different volume from %windir%. Yeah, well so did I, but Windows, ZoneAlarm, and VMware still put log files and other files in \windows\temp

Re: [H] UT3 video responce

2008-08-04 Thread maccrawj
Have you set both the system user temp environment variables? They are 2 separate settings. Winterlight wrote: Not true, I have no such folder since I long ago moved pagefile, %temp% for system users, %userprofile%, and %programfiles% to different volume from %windir%. Yeah, well so did

Re: [H] UT3 video responce

2008-08-04 Thread Winterlight
At 02:37 PM 8/4/2008, you wrote: Have you set both the system user temp environment variables? They are 2 separate settings. yep both temp and tmp Winterlight wrote: Not true, I have no such folder since I long ago moved pagefile, %temp% for system users, %userprofile%, and

Re: [H] UT3 video responce

2008-08-04 Thread Scott Sipe
On Aug 4, 2008, at 5:37 PM, maccrawj wrote: Have you set both the system user temp environment variables? They are 2 separate settings. Not that surprising--a lot of programs are notorious for not using GetSystemDir, GetTempDir and just assuming the locations are fixed. Generally

Re: [H] UT3 video responce

2008-08-04 Thread maccrawj
No I mean tmp temp for both SYSTEM USER, the are 2 sets of tmp temp. Winterlight wrote: At 02:37 PM 8/4/2008, you wrote: Have you set both the system user temp environment variables? They are 2 separate settings. yep both temp and tmp Winterlight wrote: Not true, I have no such

Re: [H] Non-video cards in PCIe slot

2008-07-09 Thread Greg Sevart
In theory, yes, you should be able to. In practice, a lot of boards have busted implementations and don't work well with cards other than graphics. Intel-based boards seem to be the biggest culprit, but the fact that not all have the issue seems to implicate the boad manufacturer more than the

Re: [H] Non-video cards in PCIe slot

2008-07-09 Thread Jason.Tozer
it flick back to 8x and stay there. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Sevart Sent: 09 July 2008 14:02 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Non-video cards in PCIe slot In theory, yes, you should be able

Re: [H] Non-video cards in PCIe slot

2008-07-09 Thread Brian Weeden
it do it, nor what makes it flick back to 8x and stay there. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Sevart Sent: 09 July 2008 14:02 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Non-video cards in PCIe slot

Re: [H] Non-video cards in PCIe slot

2008-07-09 Thread Jason.Tozer
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: 09 July 2008 14:27 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Non-video cards in PCIe slot I have that same board in my main rig - very nice board, like it a lot. This is going in my HTPC. Currently I have this board: http

Re: [H] Non-video cards in PCIe slot

2008-07-09 Thread Brian Weeden
] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: 09 July 2008 14:27 To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Non-video cards in PCIe slot I have that same board in my main rig - very nice board, like it a lot. This is going in my HTPC. Currently I have this board: http://www.newegg.com

Re: [H] Strange Video Card Behavior?

2008-01-20 Thread j maccraw
Sounds to me like the TV does not report back it's video modes correctly or you are not loading a monitor device driver that reports them. Any desktop setting above a display device's detected max gets rendered in a pan scan view port the size of the detected max display resolution. James

Re: [H] Strange Video Card Behavior?

2008-01-20 Thread James Maki
The HDTV displays correctly at 1920x1080 with an onboard nVidia card on another computer. Would that indicate that the HDTV is reporting correctly? Or is it the HDTV/Video Card combinations? Still doesn't make sense to me that the ATI card is marketed as an HDTV card capable of 1920x1080 and

Re: [H] Strange Video Card Behavior?

2008-01-20 Thread j maccraw
Capable I assume is true as long as the display detects properly. As to the TV advertising it's capabilities correctly or not, nvidia vs. ati detecting better, shades of grey argument if you're relying on PnP/autodetect vs. manually loading a driver for the TV. In Catalyst's display properties

Re: [H] Strange Video Card Behavior?

2008-01-17 Thread Robert Martin Jr.
I've dealt with similar issues and found that with many video cards and tv's, the only way to fix this is spending hours using powerstrip to hand tune and tweak video card output. Yes, this sucks but is often necessary to get everything perfect or as close to perfect as the tv and video card

Re: [H] Strange Video Card Behavior?

2008-01-17 Thread James Maki
-Original Message- From: Robert Martin Jr. I've dealt with similar issues and found that with many video cards and tv's, the only way to fix this is spending hours using powerstrip to hand tune and tweak video card output. Yes, this sucks but is often necessary to get

Re: [H] AGP video upgrade

2007-12-02 Thread j maccraw
So true! Ever since like Catalyst 7.6+ they have been fracking the AGP users and to a lesser extent the non-HD series PCIe users! Still loving my X850XT AGP with older drivers but am in the process of aquiring parts for a new Intel system will likely not buy ATI even if I go X38 chipset. No

Re: [H] AGP video upgrade

2007-11-27 Thread Chris Reeves
I think you can find an ati 2900 that's agp, I'd have to check. Sent via BlackBerry by ATT -Original Message- From: Winterlight [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:42:53 To:hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] AGP video upgrade I am doing a new build on a old box. This

Re: [H] AGP video upgrade

2007-11-27 Thread GMrtn
NewEgg ended that paypal offer only hours after it started. - Original Message - From: Winterlight [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 7:42 PM Subject: [H] AGP video upgrade I am doing a new build on a old box. This PC uses a ATI All in

Re: [H] AGP video upgrade

2007-11-27 Thread Winterlight
At 05:44 PM 11/27/2007, you wrote: I think you can find an ati 2900 that's agp, I'd have to check. Thing is I am sink of ATI drivers and problems. I have been using ATI video and TV stuff for about five years now, and I am not happy. Sent via BlackBerry by ATT -Original

Re: [H] AGP video upgrade

2007-11-27 Thread Winterlight
At 05:52 PM 11/27/2007, you wrote: NewEgg ended that paypal offer only hours after it started. Really? I just got the email well, it would of been nice but I will do the upgrade anyway.

Re: [H] AGP video upgrade

2007-11-27 Thread Jason Carson
What is the fastest Nivida AGP... a GeForce 7900GS? 7950GT is the fastest AGP I believe. It is made by XFX, but buyer beware because many of these cards are defective. I had to RMA my card 2 times before I got one that worked properly. My first card had artifacts and my second card the DVI

RE: [H] PCIe video power requirements

2007-01-03 Thread dhs
OKay. But, I'm still using AMD TBirds and do not know much about all the new classes of cpu. And, I thought most of the power for the cpu is derived from the regulator circuitry on the mainboard(?) not as direct feed from the psu. All my current boards have very heavy duty power type

RE: [H] PCIe video power requirements

2007-01-02 Thread dhs
Well maybe. But 150/12 is 12.5AMPS. Now maybe 12.5 amps is a bunch, but modern day vid cards do need a bunch of trons to work properly and provide all the eye candy we desire(require). 12.5A is still cake and well within the bitching limits I remember back in 1997! JMHO. Best, Duncan On Thu,

RE: [H] PCIe video power requirements

2007-01-02 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 01:51 PM 02/01/2007, dhs wrote: Well maybe. But 150/12 is 12.5AMPS. Now maybe 12.5 amps is a bunch, but Don't the X2 CPUs pull around 7.5A on the 12V line? Even if one factors in the RAM on the video card, 12.5 seems steep to me - especially since as far as I can tell, most power

RE: [H] PCIe video power requirements

2006-12-28 Thread Greg Sevart
Connection to the system power supply is required: 450-Watt power supply or greater, 30 Amps on 12 volt rail recommended (assumes fully loaded system) PCI Express compliant power supply required. Connect directly to the power supply with a 6 pin PCI Express power connector For CrossFireT:

RE: [H] PCIe video power requirements

2006-12-28 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
150W max still seems like a lot of juice to me. Greg Sevart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Connection to the system power supply is required: 450-Watt power supply or greater, 30 Amps on 12 volt rail recommended (assumes fully loaded system) PCI Express compliant power supply

RE: [H] PCIe video power requirements

2006-12-28 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 01:01 PM 28/12/2006, Greg Sevart wrote: No. AMD/ATI is simply recommending that your power supply can provide 30A -total- on the +12v rail. The card itself pulls much less than that. In fact, a card with a single PCIe power connector may draw no more than 150W--75W max off PCIe slot

RE: [H] PCIe video power requirements

2006-12-28 Thread Greg Sevart
Subject: RE: [H] PCIe video power requirements 150W max still seems like a lot of juice to me.

Re: [H] need video editing software.

2006-12-09 Thread Rick Glazier\(Gmail\)
Chuck, I have both a standalone VCR and one of those copy protected VCRDVD specialized machines, and in both cases (IIRC) the auto tracking can be manually over-ridden and set to anything I want... Another thing to look for is a Manufactures firmware upgrade for the (VCRDVD) machine. I had to

Re: [H] need video editing software.

2006-12-08 Thread chuck
- Original Message - From: RLS [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'The Hardware List' hardware@hardwaregroup.com Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 12:52 PM Subject: [H] need video editing software. The only thing I would really like to change is the removal of about the

Re: [H] need video editing software.

2006-12-07 Thread lopaka
you can trim avi's using a null filter in virtual dub (free) and setting the borders. If the video is currently in MPG format TMPGEnc 3.0 XPress is what I use but it's not free. lopaka RLS wrote: I have been converting our VHS tapes to video format. I am more that happy with the main quality

Re: [H] New Video Card

2006-10-18 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Christopher Fisk wrote: I'm looking for a new Video Card for my computer. Primary use will be to run World of Warcraft at 1280x1024 (My LCD's native resolution) at the best visual quality. As well as get the best possible performance out of Oblivion. I have an Athlon

Re: [H] New Video Card

2006-10-18 Thread Hayes Elkins
the 7800GS, which is par...not super. From: Christopher Fisk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:17:43 -0400 (EDT) On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Christopher

Re: [H] New Video Card

2006-10-18 Thread Christopher Fisk
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Hayes Elkins wrote: the 7800GS, which is par...not super. This is what my research today told me. I ordered one up for $200 because I don't have the money to upgrade to a PCIe system at this time, but my 6600GT is getting long in tooth. From the review's I've read

Re: [H] New Video Card

2006-10-18 Thread David L. Gabler
At 11:17 AM 10/18/2006, you wrote: On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Christopher Fisk wrote: I'm looking for a new Video Card for my computer. Primary use will be to run World of Warcraft at 1280x1024 (My LCD's native resolution) at the best visual quality. As well as get the best possible performance out of

Re: [H] New Video Card

2006-10-18 Thread FORC5
shorter in the tooth then my fx5900 :-| fp At 10:59 AM 10/18/2006, Christopher Fisk Poked the stick with: This is what my research today told me. I ordered one up for $200 because I don't have the money to upgrade to a PCIe system at this time, but my 6600GT is getting long in tooth. --

Re: [H] New Video Card

2006-10-18 Thread tmservo
2006 20:32:45 To:The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] New Video Card shorter in the tooth then my fx5900 :-| fp At 10:59 AM 10/18/2006, Christopher Fisk Poked the stick with: This is what my research today told me. I ordered one up for $200 because I don't have

Re: [H] New Video Card

2006-10-18 Thread Stan Zaske
I understand what you mean but on a long enough time-line you could have bought one piece @ a time until complete and then put it all together (I've had an aluminum mid-tower case and PSU for months now sitting in my closet). But from everything I've read the 7800GS is supposed to be

RE: [H] Which video?

2006-09-05 Thread Hayes Elkins
Why do you think the ATI would be any less stable? From: Winterlight [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] Which video? Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 19:35:32 -0700 I am putting together(online) a Thinkpad build for my

RE: [H] Which video?

2006-09-05 Thread Winterlight
myself. From: Winterlight [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com To: The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: RE: [H] Which video? Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:29:43 -0700 At 06:47 AM 9/5/2006, you wrote: Why do you think the ATI would be any less stable

RE: [H] Which video?

2006-09-05 Thread Hayes Elkins
@hardwaregroup.com Subject: RE: [H] Which video? Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:45:15 -0700 Since you stated your sister's steepest tasks are looking at high res images, I am not sure that a CAT Scan isn't a 3D image. I really don't know, but that is why I was thinking about the ATI. Personally, I have

Re: [H] Which video?

2006-09-05 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
I had an MRI done last november. I got my results on a CD that I could view on any PC. The ability to manipulate a 2D high res image is what's needed there IMO. For a LT, a high res screen and some speed (in 2D) would be nice. Think about what it takes to scroll a zoomed in image around on the

RE: [H] Which video?

2006-09-05 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 12:29 PM 05/09/2006, Winterlight wrote: At 06:47 AM 9/5/2006, you wrote: Why do you think the ATI would be any less stable? Because I own three ATI AIWs, starting with a 7500, and ending with this 800X. The drivers, for which, are all problematic. I also own, and have owned, Intel

Re: [H] Which video?

2006-09-05 Thread tmservo
To:The Hardware List hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: RE: [H] Which video? Yes, the ATI video card, above 9600 PRO will do two monitors, BUT try it with another video card, or two more video cards. ATI specifically says they do not support this. More then that, they cripple their drivers

Re: [H] Which video?

2006-09-05 Thread Winterlight
@hardwaregroup.com Subject: RE: [H] Which video? Yes, the ATI video card, above 9600 PRO will do two monitors, BUT try it with another video card, or two more video cards. ATI specifically says they do not support this. More then that, they cripple their drivers not to support

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